There’s an update on a breach reported in August, 2017. CBS reports: CVS Health is being sued for allegedly revealing the HIV status of 6,000 patients in Ohio. A federal lawsuit claims CVS mailed letters last year that showed the status of participants in the state’s HIV drug assistance program through the envelopes’ glassine window….
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More details emerge on The MENTOR Network breach
On March 21, National Mentor Healthcare, doing business as Georgia MENTOR, announced that they were notifying patients of a data breach. A disk with protected health information mailed to them by a software provider was lost in the mail, they explained. They had reportedly discovered the loss on December 21. They did not disclose when…
Personal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen may have been breached, armed forces veteran calls it chilling
JKR staff report: In a sensational revelation, an RTI reply has indicated that a private vendor previously employed by the ministry of defence may have walked away with the personal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen. The reply by the MoD, headed by Nirmala Sitharaman, raises several worrying questions in light of the latest reports of…
CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail
The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the mail. CareMeridian, LLC is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the…
Georgia MENTOR notifies patients after disk with protected health information discovered lost in the mail
From their press release: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Georgia MENTOR) is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the security of certain personal information. Although we are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, we are providing potentially impacted individuals with information about the event, steps taken…
UPDATE: FLVS leak affected 50,000 Leon County employees and students
WGCU has the update here. Note that they will be sending out individual notifications. It’s not clear whether FLVS is sending out individual notifications to any of the non-Leon County students or parents whose data was on their server. And an even more complete update here. Leon County Schools superintendent blasts FLVS.